Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition Msorcrdm.txt File (234876)

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Release Notes

Microsoft(R) ODBC Driver for Oracle
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(c) 1998 Microsoft Corporation
	  
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How to Use This Document
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To view the Readme file in Windows Notepad, maximize the Notepad window and
click Word Wrap on the Edit menu. To print the Readme file, open it in 
Notepad or another word processor, and then use the Print command on the 
File menu.

For changes from earlier versions of this driver, see the "What's New" 
section of this file.

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Overview
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The Microsoft ODBC Driver for Oracle conforms to the Open Database 
Connectivity (ODBC) specification described in the ODBC Programmer's 
Reference (Version 2.0 or later) for your platform. The Oracle driver 
allows you to connect your ODBC-compliant application to an Oracle 
database.


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System Requirements
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To use the Microsoft ODBC Driver for Oracle, you must have Oracle Client 
Software, version 7.3 or higher, installed on your Windows system. The 
Microsoft ODBC Driver for Oracle supports only SQL*Net 2.3 or later. For 
more information about Oracle products, refer to your Oracle documentation 
set.

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What's New
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This version of the Microsoft ODBC Driver for Oracle includes several 
improvements to performance and stability. No new functinality has been 
added.

This version of the Microsoft ODBC Driver for Oracle has greater stability 
because it has been tested against more environments, such as Microsoft 
Transaction Server and Internet Information Server.